Quotes from Red Cloud

We do not want riches, we want peace and love.

When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.

The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

We do not want riches, we want peace and love.

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.

I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

Whose voice was first sounded on this land? The voice of the red people who had but bows and arrows. [...] What has been done in my country I did not want, did not ask for it; white people going through my country. [...] When the white man comes in my country he leaves a trail of blood behind him. [...] I have two mountains in that country--the Black Hills and the Big Horn Mountain. I want the Great Father to make no roads through them.

There was no hope on earth, and God seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the Son of God; others did not see Him. If He had come, He would do some great things as He had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither Him nor His works.

The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day.

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

You whites make all the ammunition.

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.